Posted on 07/14/2008 10:53:30 PM PDT by Uncle Ralph
That was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's catchphrase last week as she continued to grope for an energy policy. One of her ideas was to request "a small drawdown" in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, no irony intended. At least President Bush has finally called the Speaker's bluff by rescinding the 1990 executive ban on offshore energy exploration.
With Mr. Bush's belated decision yesterday, Congress's moratorium on offshore drilling is now the last major political barrier to increasing domestic oil-and-gas production. Yet Democratic leaders have refused to schedule even a single hearing on the topic. House Appropriations Chairman David Obey recently shut down the annual budget process rather than allow Republicans to offer drilling amendments. He and the Speaker know that if they allow a vote, moderate Democrats are sure to defect and the offshore moratorium could end.
Ms. Pelosi called Mr. Bush's announcement "a hoax" and made a few cracks about "the oilman in the White House," continuing the Democratic strategy of blaming everyone from industry executives to "speculators" for the energy crunch. But none of those compare to world-wide demand, tight spare production capacity and inflation the real causes of today's record high oil prices. Easing access to the Outer Continental Shelf, with its likely low-end estimates of 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, is one of the few responsible long-term remedies.
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Dear Nancy,
Yes Dear, there is an Oilman in the White House. I don’t suppose it has occurred to you that you personally have NO EXPERIENCE AT ALL with the Petroleum Industry. Your comments are childish, and your practical solutions to the crisis are nonexistant. You are a big part of the problem, rather than the solution - you should just get the h*ll out of the way and let the grownups fix it.
And these people want to nationalize the Oil Business? We would be paying $10.00 a gallon six months after they took over.
Do you have a link to the rescinded statement?
Pleading with all to contact congress today July 15th
Flood them with your calls and emails
enough is enough
we are a government for the people, by the people
and the people have spoken
Drill or get off the hill
Pelosi email if anyone is interested sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
Now THERE's a mental image I could have done without!!!!
Interesting it took an independent to get it done. At least he didn't miss the opportunity. http://www.sanders.senate.gov/news/record-print.cfm?id=300079
I find it interesting that SanFranNan believes that increasing supplies through release of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
will reduce gas prices,
but increasing supply through domestic production will not.
You hit on an underlying theme of the Dem’s future strategy. A little now from SPR will eventually become a lot as we squander our emergency savings of oil made over the years for the short term benefit of a few pennies in gasoline savings.
Pelosi’s “just release a little oil from SPR” is ominously a harbinger of things to come when it comes to Social Security.
Like the SPR, which is inplace to take care of catastrophe and built up through many years of toiling in small increments, American’s 401ks and IRAs are set up for similar situations. Much hard work, after many years, in small increments, these things pile up to benefit us on a strategic basis in retirement when we need to call on them.
Watch carefully as the Dems tread into 401k and IRA territory to “save Social Security”. They will, like SPR cry “just release a little of your 401k/IRA” to save Social Security. You will lose your hard earned money compiled over years when a little becomes a lot as those who have saved up for years are forced to “give” in order to save the solvency of the System.
The Dems will start with those who have the most, then trickle down to the real money which the middle class possesses.
Think this cannot happen, taking your 401k/IRA and giving it to SS? Think again. The Government will claim that, since no taxes have been paid on the money put in, it has a claim on it.
Yo have to understand the liberal philosophy: all money belongs to the government, not to those who have earned it.
We need to thank Speaker Pelosi for alerting us to what is eventually in store for Social Security and our retirement accounts.
Understand me clearly: if this ever came to pass, I would go to Washington with a gun. And I am most assuredly not the only one.
My view is that the government's only hope is to inflate their way out of it.
Randy Forbes, VA 4th. He may be the last true conservative left on Capitol Hill. He’ll be getting my contribution this time around - not the RNC - but I doubt if there’s a Dem who has the stones to take him on.
But why choose the fiscal year ending just 35 days before a presidential election rather than a fiscal year in a non-election year?
In the past 6 months I have heard at least 6 Democrats (including Obama, Pelosi and Clinton) utter the words: “One time tax on 401K’s”.
They have to do it EVERY year, not just election years. It’s all part of the standard budget cycle, and that’s why most government agencies spend like drunken sailors in September to use up the previous years appropriations so that they don’t lose them in October when the new appropriations come into effect. Its actually just a coincedence that the congressional drilling ban expires a month before the presidential election, believe it or not.
A contract was made by the government, with me, that my 401k would be taxed upon withdrawal, which in my opinion is dangerous enough.
The politicians have kicked the can on this issue until there's almost no can left to kick: the chickens are about to come home to roost. And I'll be godamned if they think I'm going to pay the bill.
Some of us live with the consequences of life and have saved and sacrificed. If they try to renege on this, God help them because they're going to need it.
My reply:
Thank you for contacting my office.
Congressional courtesy prevents me from replying to emails if I cannot determine that you are a constituent of mine.
If you are not a resident of California’s 8th Congressional District and are contacting me in regard to my role as Speaker, please email me at AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov.
If you are a resident of the 8th District of California, please contact my office in Washington, DC at (202) 225-4965 to be added to our database.
The first post in the comments section is excellent.
[Should we do whatever we can to support domestic exploration? Only if we care about having some control over our own future, only if we want to use our dollars to support American oilfield workers, the U.S. steel industry, the U.S. trucking industry, U.S. petroleum and chemical engineers, geologists and geophysicists, U. S. oilfield workers, U. S. shipping industry, U. S. industrial fabricators, and the many more support businesses, employing primarily American blue collar workers, that the oil and gas industry relies on to conduct the business of exploring for, drilling for, producing and refining oil and gas for all of the many uses it has in our lives, only one of which is the gasoline for our cars...only if we want to reduce the price of oil.]
In other words, the Rats and the envirocommies have the American economy in a noose.
So, does it hurt yet? Have the soaring gas prices made you angry enough yet? Are you still blaming President Bush and Big Oil? Good. Thats what the Democrats in Congress and the weak-kneed Republicans who vote with them are hoping for.
Dont buy this mantra from the left that we cant drill our way out of this.
Thats just bull. Of course we can, but they dont want us to. How do I know? I know, because I heard Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colorado) admit it on C-SPAN late on a Wednesday night when very few other people were probably watching.
In essence, Rep. Perlmutter said the Democrats plan is to allow the price of gas to get so high that it will literally force Americans to convert to other forms of fuel.
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880624026
Unless the Republicans are actively using it as an election campaign issue... many of them won’t be returning to Congress for those votes you speak of.
That’s what I’m referring to. The lack of focus by the Republicans on this issue in the Congressional election campaigns.
Yes, the California National Guard, being California public employees unless activated by the US Federal government, must be required to ride public transit to any disaster zone - their place of work.
Same for police, firefighters, and EMT technicians.
Good call!
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